This challenge consists of participating in a 10-week training program to design, build and improve their community models. For this, Maldita.es and the participants will learn from experts and collaborate on strategies by sharing their experience in business and community models.
The selected media outlets are:
- Baltic Center for Investigative Journalism (Latvia)
- Poligrafo (Portugal)
- Faktograf (Croatia)
- Ecuador Chequea (Ecuador)
- Chequeado (Argentina)
- Pesa Check (Kenya)
- Fatabyyano (Jordan)
- NewsMobile (India)
- BOOM (India)
- Vera Files (Philippines)
- Taiwan FactCheck Center (Taiwan)
- Politifact (United States)
- The Dispatch (United States)
The Facebook Accelerator program was launched in 2018 as a global training program to help local media outlets create sustainable business models.
This is the first time that Facebook has created a specific program for fact-checking organizations that are part of its third-party fact-checking program. Since 2018, more than 175 media outlets have been part of the accelerators.
It is led by Blue Engine Collaborative, a consortium of consultants and advisors founded by Tim Griggs, a former executive at The New York Times and Texas Tribune, to drive digital audience and revenue growth.
About Maldita.es and Facebook’s third-party fact-checking program
Since 2019 Maldita.es has had an agreement with Facebook to fight disinformation on its platform. As part of the third-party fact-checking program, Maldita.es uses its methodology, maintaining independence and rigor, to verify messages, images and videos published on Facebook.
Facebook’s third-party fact-checking program was created in 2016 to combat hoaxes circulating on its platform. Since then, the program has been launched in more than thirty countries in collaboration with fact-checking teams certified by the International Fact-Checking Network, the international alliance of independent fact-checkers of which Maldita.es is a member.